This folder contains materials for reproducing the results in the paper �The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by US Multinational Firms�. This paper uses firm-level data on US multinationals collected by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Public dissemination of the firm-level BEA data used in this paper is not permitted by the agency.  However, individual researchers may gain access to the data by following the procedure described on the BEA's website: www.bea.gov. For researchers with access to the BEA data, the files included in this folder, along with the firm-level data, should be sufficient to reproduce the results of the paper.


This folder contains the following files:
1. "KOS.do" generates all the results shown in the paper.
2. �KOS_public_data_high_rid_dummies.dta� is a set of dummy variables indicating which industries are classified as having high or low levels of royalty, interest, and dividend payments relative to sales, as described in the paper.
3. �KOS_public_data_ctry-level.dta� includes the country-level control variables used in the analysis, as well as the country-level BTT data.
4. "KOS_ind-level_emp_cbp.dta" includes industry-level employment data from the U.S. Census Bureaus's County Business Patterns (CBP).
5. "KOS_cbp_newmsa_ind_weight_1986.dta" includes the weights used in MSA-level analysis.
6. "KOS_cbp_newmsa_year.dta" includes the msa-level employment data

